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Now the wind blows, the water tosses, the whale swims, & all to meet Jonah which flies from God, to see if they can turn his hart which sleeps in disobedience. The ship goes roundly for a time, the Prophet is sleeping, the mariners are sporting, their sails flaunting, the waters calming, the winds guiding, so merrily sin goes on before the tempest comes. The wind blows not yet, therefore go on yet a little, & yet a little more, but yet the tempest rushes upon them before they be ware of it, and tumbles them up and down, & suddenly all is like to be undone. Now Jonah is in more danger then the Ninevites. And now, ó that he had stayed at home and saved his money, saved his credit, & saved his life from the danger of the furious & unmerciful stream. Here we may see what pains a sinner takes, & all to hurt him self. He came to the haven, and paid the fare, and entered the ship, and hoist up sails, and went on forward, and all to fly from God, and yet he fled not from him but to him. Therefore David saith, if I take the morning ¹wings and fly aloft, lo thou art there, if I go into the nethermost depth, thy hand will find me out: therefore whither shall I fly from thee? so that when we think that ⟨p. 130⟩we fly from God, in running out of one place into another, we do but run from one hand to the other, for there is no place where Gods hand is not, and whither soever a rebellious sinner doth run, the hand of God will meet with him to cross him, and hinder his good success, although he prophecieth never so much good unto him self in his journey. The winds could not further Jonah, the waters could not bear him, his sleep could not save him, the ship could not hold him, the mariners could not help him, the whale would not spare him, but he poor man must be cast out, lest all through him be cast away. The ship that was full of wares of great value, was ready to sink when Jonah entered into it. He trusted to the winds, and the winds could not further him; he trusted to the waters, and the waters could not bear him; he trusted to the ship, the ship could not hold him; he trusted to the mariners, the mariners could not help him. What had he offended the winds, or the waters, or what had he offended the ship that bare him such enmity? The winds and the waters, and ²all Gods creatures, are to take Gods part against Jonah or any other rebellious sinner.